2013-14 « Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Kety Silva ’14: “A Home Away From Home” – April 18, 2013

The NGO, Verdefam, receives grants to offset the costs of gynecological exams, ultrasounds, STI exams, contraceptive methods, pregnancy tests, and family planning options. This presentation will focus on healthcare policy, legislation, and how a new sovereign state like Cape Verde tackles political and sociological issues surrounding healthcare access. Kety Silva ‘14, a Sociology and Spanish Major, Women’s and Gender Studies Minor, was born on the Cape Verdean islands off the West Coast of Africa. Her parents immigrated to the United States when Kety was just two years old. Thanks to a grant from BPIP for providing funding to attend a […]

Dr. Joseph Michael Valente: “How Deaf Children learn to be Deaf: Bilingual Kindergartens in France, Japan, and the United States” – October 29, 2013

Prof. Valente will discuss and present anthropological film footage from his cross-cultural, comparative ethnographic study of deaf kindergartens. The central research question is how bilingual kindergartens in schools for the deaf function as sites of acculturation into both Deaf culture and national culture and the role that teachers play in this process.

Dean Spade: “Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of the Law” – January 30, 2013

Dean Spade will be presenting selections from his recent book, “Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of the Law.” In “Normal Life,” Dean uses Critical Race Theory, women of color feminism, and other intellectual traditions to analyze the role of law reform in contemporary queer and trans policies. He examines the poverty, violence, criminalization and immigration enforcement facing trans populations, and questions the utility of anti-discrimination law and hate crimes laws for addressing these harms.

Sami Schalk: “Blackness and Disability: From Slavery to a Not-so-Distant Future” – September 10, 2013

To date, the fields of disability studies, Black Diaspora studies, and critical race studies have engaged little in intellectual exchange. While disability studies scholars have noted the lack of discussions of race within the field and have begun to engage more with blackness, Black Diaspora and critical race scholars have shown little interest in disability as social construct. This talk will introduce the audience to disability studies and explain why the field is so important for those studying the black experience in America. From the ways in which disability was used to justify slavery to the ways in which black […]

Bastian Heinsohn: “The Language of the Street: On the Use of Graffiti in Post-Unification Berlin Films” – November 21, 2013

The New York Times calls Berlin the “graffiti capital” of the world. Ever since the colorfully painted Berlin Wall fell in 1989, graffiti and street art adopted intriguing new meanings in Germany’s capital. This talk illuminates how recent German films capture graffiti as meaningful forms of expression for minorities living in Berlin.

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Archive for the 2013-14 Category

Kety Silva ’14: “A Home Away From Home” – April 18, 2013

Dr. Joseph Michael Valente: “How Deaf Children learn to be Deaf: Bilingual Kindergartens in France, Japan, and the United States” – October 29, 2013

Dean Spade: “Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of the Law” – January 30, 2013

Sami Schalk: “Blackness and Disability: From Slavery to a Not-so-Distant Future” – September 10, 2013

Bastian Heinsohn: “The Language of the Street: On the Use of Graffiti in Post-Unification Berlin Films” – November 21, 2013

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